ملف رقم ٧٥٧ لسنة ١٩٠٩ "الخليج الفارسي: تركيا والعدوان التركي (احتلال جزيرة الزخنونية. الموقف تجاه قضايا القرصنة. المدراء في الزبارة والعُديد والوكرة) العلاقات البريطانية مع تركيا في الخليج الفارسي" [ظ‎‎١‎٦‎٨] (٤٩٥/٣٤١)

by the headman of Daura, one bin Naghaim, a Turkish subject that he would
b rested b? foZ' ry T r h Se T C 1 ’-T d l ^ attem ' ,t t0 do 50 -de, it Zld
be resisted by force. 1 he Turkish police went away without doing anything.
The Vali a few days after wrote to the Shaikh that after careful ennntr, ;*
ad been found that the persons mentioned in his list were not guilty of comoli-
city m the piracy, and that bin Naghaim had furthermore exprefsed^is wilHnp-
ness to point out the real culprits who lived in Mohammerah. Shaikh Khazfl
replied asking for bin Naghaim to be sent for to Basrah, where he micrht mat
good h,s words. He has heard no more about it since, ^s bin Naghafm ^
merah 1VS re^e. 4 Srah ‘ m0re0ver -do not choose Moham-
quite'ii^ependem^y^ob^aine^b^^halceTiETr^frmn ^Mubarak,^ho^aid* Hia^cm^of
his men had witnessed the division of the spoils. 06 ° f
The Vali has done nothing whatever to arrest or make enm,;™ .u-
matter, though asked to do so more than once. Apparently he has been fooled ' S
this case, asm the Zain case, by his police. In^the Zafn case hey Jde him
believe h,s authority was being flouted. In this case, when it is onenlv defied
they assure him that " careful enquiry ” had been made, etc. P X d fi d ’
e a ,iTHethird piracy on record is that of 29th June. A Kuwait boom, Nakhuda
Salih al Hajn. The whole crew were murdered, 8 men in all the hnnm i * a
and scuttled. This took place on the high seas South of Kuwait ? ^
were 9 m number, all came from Sani/ah or Qat'ah in the Dawalfr dis^T
Turkish territory, except one man of Oasbat-al-Na<^ar u distnct »
and imprisoned by the Shaikh. The VaH was asked by Shaikh Khazaf^noffish d
Zv:rd the r me d n t in | D t aWaSir0f Wh0m the Shaikh shZefa list Tam infeed
the Vali declined to take any steps in the matter, owing to the lack of loo-al n (
or some excuse of the sort. He, however, claimed thaf the man arre efb/The
Shaikh in Qasbat-akNassar was a Turkish subject, and wanted Shaikh Khazal to
release him, which he very properly declined to do. Tne man’s father 1 d
35“ ‘" «»*«•*— *" d |» »■' I..V. X5
Qh,'i^. S i, reeardS P oncerte<1 measu res for the prevention of piracy, the Vali and the
S aikh have made some arrangement for patrolling the river with bellams contain
mg representatives of either side. But the Vali’f attitude in the proved cases’
of piracy which have been referred to him have been so disappointing doubtless
on account of his political obsessions, that the Shaikh is not very hopeful as to
the result of concerted action. 1 am inclined to share the Shaikh's pesiimism The
pirates are well aware that their names are known to the Turks. They see’ that
no action of any kind is being taken against them by the Vali though anyone